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The Midnight Taxi Reviews

  • 1928
  • 1 hr 2 mins
  • Comedy
  • NR
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The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.

A run-of-the-mill story of bootleggers double-crossing each other, stolen bonds, really nice good guys, and very mean bad men. The title is taken from the taxis that transport the bootleg liquor. Dugan steals the show with his stuttering and clowning, which had audiences howling. (Remember, sound movies were a new experience.)